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Next Botanik-Tagung is going to take place in Göttingen. Looking forward to the next meeting. Thank you, @jandevries.bsky.social ! #BT2028 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Many thanks to Christopher Grefen and his team for organizing an amazing @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social conference @ruhr-uni-bochum.de #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026

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Ralph Bock is talking about genome transfer in evolution, breeding, and synthetic biology #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Good news: Amanda and Katharina just won poster prizes for their amazing work on MYB transcription factors and pigment biosynthesis at #Botanik-Tagung2026 #BT2026 @puckerlab.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @unibonn.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Kirsten Krause is talking about plant interactions, especially parasitic plants #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Asaph Aharoni starts the last day of #BT2026 with a keynote lecture about root exudation and biotic interaction #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Fernando Geu-Flores starts the session with a talk about specialized metabolism in lupin #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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The time has come. Please join the session in HZO 30 to learn about the pigment evolution in Cucurbitaceae #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026

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Congratulations to Paul Grünhofer and Sarina Niedzwiez for winning the Horst Wiehe Prize #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Jaccoline Zegers receives the Pfeffer Award 2026 for her excellent work on evolutionary conservation of hyperosmotic response #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Best Paper Prize 2025 by the Wilhelm Pfeffer foundation is awarded to Sara Leite Dias, Ling Chuang, and Shenyu Liu #BT2026

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Strasburger Award 2026 goes to Michelle Rönspies for her outstanding work on CRISPR-Cas-mediated chromosome fusion in A. thaliana #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Laura Lagomarsino is talking about the evolution of plants in the Andes #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026

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Nancy Choudhary @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Luke Bell is starting the day with a talk about secondary metabolism, climate resilience, and human nutrition #BT2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Having a great time at the Botanik-Tagung 2026 in Bochum! I’ll be presenting my work on Cucurbitaceae tomorrow (09.09.2026) at 16:30. Looking forward to an interesting discussion! #BT2026 #PlantScience #SpecializedMetabolism #PlantPigments #Anthocyanins #Carotenoids #Evolution #Cucurbitaceae

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Please remember to visit our group members at their posters and attend their talks #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026

Interested in full plasmid sequencing? Ask Julie about it. Next poster session: today at 9am. #BT2026

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If you are interested in the genome sequence collection that Jakob announced, please get in touch

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Interested in long read sequencing of plant genomes? Visit Julie at her poster to learn how it is done and what is possible today #Botanik-Tagung2026 #BT2026 #genomics @puckerlab.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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The evolutionary biology session is starting at #Botanik-Tagung2026. Join to learn about the fascinating mechanisms that shape(d) plants #BT2026

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Second day of #Botanik-Tagung2026 starts with a talk by Katie Field about mycorrhiza #BT2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Please remember to visit our group members at their posters and attend their talks #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026

Ute Krämer is wrapping up the first day of the conference with a lecture about plant adaption to heavy metal #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Integrative Approaches in Phylogenomics & Biodiversity Research is starting at #Botanik-Tagung2026 #BT2026

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Please submit comments to the EU Commission’s Call for Evidence on how to implement the new rules for "Plants obtained by new genomic techniques (#NGT)". Submission deadline 28 Sept. Below what I submitted. #plantscience ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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First keynote lecture by Dominique Bergmann about stomata looking across plant species #BT2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Many thanks to the amazing organizing team. Already a very promising start. Looking forward to exciting days! #BT2026

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Andreas Weber is kicking off #BT2026 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de with very important messages about the roles of communities for excellent science @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

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Arrived @ruhr-uni-bochum.de for the @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Botanik-Tagung 2026. Looking forward to inspiring discussions and a great time in Bochum with @puckerlab.bsky.social #BT2026 #PlantSciences

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PuckerLab @puckerlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We are excited to share our research at Botanik-Tagung 2026. Looking forward to inspiring discussions and a great time in Bochum! www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #BT2026 #PlantSciences @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @bpucker.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Title slides of two PBB talks that are going to be given by Nancy Choudhary and Jakob Horz at Botanik-Tagung 2026. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#BT2026

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Here is an update on our nanopore sequencing activities showing the output per flow cell: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... The data are mostly from plant DNA, with some microbial genomes also included. #LongReads #Genomics @puckerlab.bsky.social

Sequencing output per flow cell. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#P2OS

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PuckerLab @puckerlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Are you interested in gene expression? We have just released PanXpresso - a large collection of precomputed gene expression datasets for plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and archaea: doi.org/10.64898/202... #RNAseq #Transcriptomics #Python @shakunthalan.bsky.social @bpucker.bsky.social

Phylogenetic tree showing the distribution of gene expression datasets across plant families. Source: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.747620

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why could this be useful? We see cross-species coexpression (as implemented in CoExpPhylo) as a very powerful tool for future discoveries in the specialized plant metabolism, but you need big data to run it: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today is the day! Your chance to learn about synthetic biology (iGEM). We will be sharing our experiences at 6 pm in SR2.007 (IZMB, Kirschallee 1). Interested students from the University of Bonn are invited! Details: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/igem @puckerlab.bsky.social @igembonn.bsky.social

Illustration showing an iGEM team at work. Partially generated with AI support.

Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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We went on a boat trip to collect samples of aquatic carnivorous plants (Utricularia). Excited to learn more about these fascinating plants? Check out our latest preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantSciences #Genomics #TeamWork @puckerlab.bsky.social

PuckerLab boat trip 2026. Details about our research: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.747637

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026